Card game



June 16, 1925. r 1,542,392

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UNITED srArEs PATENT OFFICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNA L. R. Jonnson,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Marietta, in the county ofLac qui Parle and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new anduseful Imp'rovementsin Card Games, of which the following is aspecification. V

This invention relates to card games, and more particularly toimprovements in a pack of laying cards, an object of the invention,being the provision of cards for a card game specially adapted to beplayed by school children.

To this end, I provide a pack of cards representing a plurality ofdivisions or sections, each division consisting of an equal number ofcards. Each of the divisions has a difi'erent identifying name, whichname is a word having a meaning calculated to awaken in the mind of theplayer, a thought of some phase or thing common to school life, such asTeacher, Grammar, Busy work, and the like. In turn, each of the cards yconstituting a division, bears different data in the form of either, aword, phrase, a simple sentence, an exclamation, a question, or anyother suitable expression havlng direct or indirect relation to themeaning of the 80 name of its division. For example. each of the cardsof the division named Teacher hear one of such inscriptions as, Thatssplendid, No whispering, In your seats, See how good John is, and thelike. while the cards of the division named Grammar carry-such words asNoun, Pronoun, Verb, Analysis, Syntax, and

so forth- Thus, the expression Thats splendid, 49 will beneficiallyexercise the mind of the player to quickly trace the source from whichsuch an expression is likely to emanate. Obviously, to the mind of aplayer, going or having gone to school, the name Teacher would be themost suggestive.

Likewise, the division Grammar is easily recalled by such words as Noun,Verb, and the like, as the words are directly related thereto.

It is an object of m invention, to provide an amusing car game, whichwill pleasantly exercise the memory of the player, both young and,adult, inasmuch as,- 1 during the progress of the game, knowledge longforgotten is repeatedly called to mind. My invention, in its preferredform, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form a part ofthis specification and in which i Figure 1, represents a front view ofone division of a pack of cards in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2, represents a front view. of another division of the pack thedata being placed longitudinally thereof to facilitate illustration, and

Fig. 3, represents an index card disclosing the identifying letters ofthe sets constituting the divisions.

The cards are designated by the numeral 1 and may be of any suitablematerial and size, but are preferably of the shape and size of ordinaryplaying cards, there being five cards for each letter of the alphabet,excepting the letters QT-WXY and Z, thus making a total of one hundredcards in the pack. These are preferably divided to form ten divisions often cards each, each division comprising two sets of five cards each,all of the sets in the pack carrying distinctive identifying marks 2,whereby the cards of each set may be readily recognized. The distinctivemark is preferably placed at diagonally opposite corners of the cards,but may be placed at the four corners if desired. The identifying marks2. consists of the twenty letters of the alphabet referred to in theforegoing and to be hereinafter referred to as distinctive set or bookidentifying marks, the two divisions illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of thedrawings, bearing the identifying imprints of the letters AB and ODrespectively. The index card 4 is provided, whereby the lettersidentifying the sets of the several divisions may be readilyascertained, to be memorized by .the players.

Of the ten divisions indicated on the index card, the names andappropriate data relating respectively thereto, of the first twodivisions is disclosed in Fi 1 and 2 of the drawings. These twodivisions are typical of all the rest, which latter are here brieflyrecited to set forth the variety of subject matter which may he broughtto the mind of the players.

In playing the game for which the cards are specially intended, eightcards are dealt, one at a time, to each player, of which there may befour, more or less as desired. When less than four play, some of thedivisions may be taken out of the pack, or when small children play,such divisions as Grammar-Geography and Spelling may be extracted.

In the play, three cards bearing the same book mark, constitute a group,while five constitute a book. .The players endeavor constantly to scorecounts by being the first to name the division to which a group belongs,and to complete the largest number of books. The manner of accomplishingthis. is clearly set forth in the following description of the plays andrules of the game.

When three or more play (the cards having been dealt as stated in theforegoing) the players, beginning with the dealer, and progressingleftward from one to the other, is given a chance to announce that heholds a group in his hand. The player holding the group, immediatelyreads aloud, the

data of one card of the group. All the players are now permitted to namethe division to which the card belongs. The player who makes the firstannouncement is first recognized and if he names the proper division iscredited with two points in his score. Should he, however, name thewrong division, he is penalized two points, and the player holding thegroup, lays them, face up, upon the table, and draws a card from thepack left over after dealing. If this player has another group he doesas before. If not, he passes an undesirable card to the player on hisleft and draws another card from the pack. He is now estopped fromfurther play, even though the lastcard drawn, completes a group in hishand, or could be played by adding it to the group which he previouslylaid on the table. The players to his left, in turn, are given the sameopportunity as the first player, to announce the holding of a group, andcall for the division, or if they have no group but have a card of thesame book mark, as the group or groups on the table, as the case may be,they may play such cards in the endeavor to complete books or play thefourth card thereon. If no player in turn holds a group or book in thehand, the player to the left of the dealer, passes an undesirable cardto the player at his left, and then draws a card from the pack. If theplayer to his left, to whom he passed the undesirable card, now has agroup, he duplicates the play described in the foregoing,

player, after receiving the card, holds the fifth, or the fourth andfifth cards, of the book begun which is lying on the table, the book ishis which he takes as a trick for scoring, and he then draws a card fromthe pack. If he then has a group he repeats as before. He is entitled toplay as long as he holds a group, can finish a book, or is i able toplay a fourth card in the formation of a book, after which he passes acard to the player at the left and draws one from the pack. If playerholds in his hand no card to pass on, he plays no more until cards aredealt again. If the game is blocked so no player can continue accordingto rules, count points gained by each, and if no one has fifty or moredeal cards again as before. The game progresses in this manner until allthe cards have been made into books.

Summarizing, a card is drawn, when the player has a group, completes abook, and after passing a card to the player on his left. No card isdrawn after the fourth card is played, but this card, if a drawn card,must be played as soon as drawn, unless it is drawn after the player haspassed a card to the player on his left. Further, this fourth card mustbe played when this player plays the next round. For not playing thecard thus, the player is penalized one point.

The score for each player consists of the sum of the books completed inplay, or held in the hand, plus the credits won by naming the correctdivisions, minus the penalties imposed. The player first making fiftypoints wins the game.

All of the legible printed matter carried by the cards, has relation toschool instrumentalities, but it is to be understood that thefundamental principle involved in my invention, may be applied to otherorganized instrumentalities.

I claim:

1. Card game apparatus, comprising a deck of cards divided into groups,legible means on each card to suggest but not name a group to which thecard belongs, a character on each card, alike for all cards in a groupbut distinctive for different groups, and an index containing a list ofthe group designating characters, and in conjunction with each groupdesignating character the name of the group which it desi ates.

2. A pack of cards, divided into a plurality of equal divisions, eachdivision being mark for each card whereby to identify the assigned adifferent name, each name having division to which it belon and an mdexsome relation to school instrumentalities, card bearing the names 0 allof the divi- 1 different legible printed matter on each sions and themarks of the cards comprising card, said printed matter on the cardshavthe respective divisions.

ing special relation to the names of the re- In testimony whereof Iaflix my signatune. spectlve divisions to which they belong, a ANNA L.R. JOHNSON.

